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Install Windows 8 Developer Preview Side by side with Windows 7

I wanted to install the windows 8 developer preview on my current development machine, but I only have one hard drive that already has windows 7 on it. You can get the windows 8 developer preview iso here

Step 1

Create a new partition that windows 8 will get installed on. Windows 7′s disk management console has a nifty feature that lets you shrink the partition size of your currently formatted hard drives to allow for new space to create a partition on. Click the start menu, then right click on Computer and select Manage. From there click Disk Management under Storage.

Shrink the size of your current partition. I chose to create a 50GB partition.

Step 2

Format the new space so you’ll be able to install a bootable copy of windows 8 developer preview

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